Luca Harrington (L), Miro Tabanelli, Matej Svancer on the men's ski big air podium at the 2025 X Games in Aspen. Photo: Mark Kohlman/X Games
Wanaka freestyle skier Luca Harrington has collected his second medal to complete a breakthrough campaign at the X Games.
Harrington will bring home silver from the Big Ski Air event, having collected a slopestyle gold earlier in his maiden appearance at the Games.
The 20-year-old, who initially was going to X Games as an alternate in both of his medal events, has turned heads, more than holding his own in world class fields.
Four of the eight skiers in the the Big Ski Air were returning gold medallists.
Harrington rose to the occasion, advancing to the final with ease by putting down a triple corked 1980 with a tweaked tail grab.
He sat in the bronze medal position after the first of two final runs, having put down a repeat triple corked 1980.
In his second run, he added an extra 180 degrees of rotation, landing his first ever triple corked 2160 tail grab - with six full rotations.
He was rewarded a substantial score of 97.00 by the judges, leaving him just one point behind Italian winner Miro Tabanelli.
It was the first time Harrington had landed the trick on snow, exclaiming "I did it!" as he pulled into the bottom of the course, quickly surrounded by fellow competitors and his family.
Zoi Sadowski Synnott competes in a run of the women's snowboard slopestyle final event at the Phoenix Park during the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympic Games. Photo: FRANCOIS XAVIER MARIT
New Zealand's three other medals came from snowboarders.
Zoi Sadowski-Synnott won the slopestyle event and bagged bronze in the Big Air while Rocco Jamieson also secnured a Big Air bronze.
A number of New Zealand athletes will remain in Aspen to contest this week's World Cup event.
